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Landlords should have to pay income tax on their rental properties regardless of whether they're rented out or not. (gothamist.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de to c/personalfinance@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.crimedad.work/post/12162

Why? Because apparently they need some more incentive to keep units occupied. Also, even though a property might be vacant, there's still imputed rental income there. Its owner is just receiving it in the form of enjoying the unit for himself instead of receiving an actual rent check from a tenant. That imputed rent ought to be taxed like any other income.

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

libertarianism... does not work

I get the point about anarchy (power vacuum arguments apply across implementations), but libertarianism is such a huge category that I'm not sure what you're getting at. Libertarianism isn't an economic system, there are socialist and capitalist extremes. It's also not a government structure, it houses both anarchists and bigger government ideas.

It's a philosophy that values the principles of individual liberty and non-aggression first and foremost, and everything else is discussed on those terms (I.e. how can we solve the problem with more liberty). There are different views about property rights, validity of certain types of taxes, etc, so you usually can't generalize unless you believe we need authoritarianism or something.

If you could be more specific, we could probably have a constructive conversation.